Tom Riley ("Monroe," I Want Candy), brings Leonard da Vinci to life in "Da Vinci's Demons," a historical fantasy following the &#8216;untold' story of the world's greatest genius during his turbulent youth in Renaissance Florence. Brilliant and passionate, the twenty-five year old Leonardo da Vinci is an artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist. As a free thinker, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time. He begins to not only see the future, but invent it.

David S. Goyer's historical fantasy series "Da Vinci's Demons" will premiere April 12, Starz announced over the weekend at the Television Critics Association in Pasadena, where the cable network showed the new series trailer below.